Quotes About Creature

Gloria lui Dumnezeu nu const? doar în perceperea perfecÈ›iunii Sale de c?tre creatura Sa, deoarece fiinÈ›a creat? poate s? perceap? puterea È™i înÈ›elepciunea lui Dumnezeu È™i totuÈ™i s? nu se bucure de ea, ci s-o urasc?.

me in these things is incalculable. I love his words, "The happiness of the creature consists in rejoicing in God, by which also God is magnified and exalted."56 But I also love to say it my way: God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in him.

The end of the creation is that the creation might glorify [God]. Now what is glorifying God, but a rejoicing at that glory he has displayed?"32 "The happiness of the creature consists in rejoicing in God, by which also God is magnified and exalted."33

God's respect to the creature's good, and his respect to himself, is not a divided respect; but both are united in one, as the happiness of the creature aimed at is happiness in union with himself.

This delight which God has in his creature's happiness cannot properly be said to be what God receives from the creature. For it is only the effect of his own work in and communications to the creature, in making it and admitting it to a participation of his fullness, as the sun receives nothing from the jewel that receives its light and shines only by a participation of its brightness.

If God has respect to something in the creature, which he views as of everlasting duration, and as rising higher and higher through that infinite duration, and that not with constantly diminishing (but perhaps an increasing) celerity;114 then he has respect to it, as, in the whole, of infinite height; though there never will be any particular time when it can be said already to have come to such a height.

The foam is not cruel.… The state of mind which attributes to it these characters of a living creature is one in which the reason is unhinged by grief. All violent feelings… produce in us a falseness in all our impressions of external things, which I would generally characterize as the "Pathetic Fallacy."

The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.

What a strange creature is a laughing fool, As if a man were created to no use But only to show his teeth.

And mentally, I don't believe, really, that I am one bit more out of my head than any other creature here on earth.

God is the conditioned creature par excellence, the slave of slaves, prisoner of His attributes, of what He is. Man, on the contrary, has a certain leeway insofar as he is not - insofar as, possessing only a borrowed existence, he struggles in pseudoreality.

Boredom has made me into a speechifier ashamed of raising his voice, a theoretician for the senile and the adolescent, for metaphysical menopauses, a vestige of a creature, a hallucinated clown.

apron, a cheap appropriation of the Cath Kidston effect. I feel like an interloper in someone else's life. I am a creature from science fiction, wearing an earth body to disguise my true self.

Not with a Club, the Heart is brokenNor with a Stone—A Whip so small you could not see itI've knownTo lash the Magic CreatureTill it fell.

A man is a poor creature compared to a woman.

Freedom consists in the exercise of the will in overthrowing every opposition which restrains the development of the nature of the creature.

The liberty of the creature is at once alienable and inalienable; alienable because it depends on the will of the creature, and inalienable because it is absolutely willed by the Creator. It is alienable in fact, but inalienable by right. Natural right is the will of God, as it expresses itself in the essence of our reason, which is His workmanship. And as God alone is absolute, no pretended positive has any authority to contravene a natural right proceeding from Him.

To create is to love, to will the creature for itself. The creature is therefore willed as its own end. God wills that the creature should be. He wills it in the interest of the creature. He wills its good, and its good consists in the realization of its being.

God, the infinite Being, arrives at the finite only through the eternal Word, the mediating moment; the creature, or the finite, can only lift itself towards the infinite by means of the same mediator.

The Conservative believes that man is, in part, an economic, an animal creature; but that he is also a spiritual creature with spiritual needs and spiritual desires. What is more, these needs and desires reflect the superior side of man's nature, and thus take precedence over his economic wants.

It's extraordinary, is it not, Cornelius? A creature of such power--shaken by his own shadow! Driven by fear--of himself!

The most dangerous mistake that our Souls are capable of, is, to take the Creature for God, and Earth for Heaven. And yet alas, how common is this. And in how great a degree are the best guilty of it.

I am inclined to think that the realm of mythology is where the Yeti rightly belongs.

The happiness of the creature consists in rejoicing in God, by which also God is magnified and exalted.